ICE and immigration enforcement

Concrete ICE and DHS enforcement activity -- arrest quotas and surges, detention-capacity expansion, deaths and shootings during enforcement, and the conditions and accountability fights that follow them. Distinct from the legal-theory fights tracked in the Alien Enemies Act chain.

1. Jan 26, 2025 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Confirmed

   ICE Sets Daily Arrest Quotas of 1,200 to 1,500
2. Mar 1, 2025 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

   Foreign Students and Scholars Detained Over Campus Protest Activity
3. May 20, 2025 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Confirmed

   Miller and Noem Order ICE to Triple Daily Arrests
4. Dec 14, 2025 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Confirmed

   TSA Shares Airline Passenger Data With ICE for Deportation Enforcement
5. Dec 16, 2025 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

   Border Patrol Official Falsely Claims Citizens Must Carry Immigration Documents
6. Jun 26, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Confirmed

   'Alligator Alcatraz' Closes After Detention and Environmental Controversies
7. Jun 30, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

   ICE Arrests 10,000 in Five Days in a Late-June Enforcement Surge
8. Jul 6, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

   Afghan Ally's Death in ICE Custody Ruled an Accident as the Autopsy Is Withheld
9. Jul 9, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Confirmed

   Mexico Says It Will Seek Criminal Charges Over 17 Deaths Tied to U.S. Immigration Enforcement
10. Jul 10, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

    DHS Says the Man Killed by an ICE Officer in Houston Was Not the Intended Target
11. Jul 11, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Developing

    Video Analysis Raises Questions About the DHS Account of the Houston ICE Shooting
12. Jul 13, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Developing

    ICE Officer Fatally Shoots a Man in Biddeford, Maine, in a Disputed Vehicle Stop
13. Jul 15, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

    ICE Vehicle-Stop Suspension Is Reversed a Day After Two Fatal Shootings
14. Jul 16, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

    FBI Stops Investigating Assault Claims Against ICE Agents
15. Jul 17, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

    ICE Officer's Violent, Racist History Surfaces After Fatal Maine Shooting
16. Jul 20, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

    ICE Seeks Contractors to Expand Detention at 14 Sites, Including Guantanamo and the Virgin Islands
17. Jul 21, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Confirmed

    ICE Books a Record 43,000 People Into Detention in June as Custody Population Climbs
18. Jul 22, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

    ICE Officials Warned of Dangerous Overcrowding at 26 Federal Plaza and Kept Sending People
19. Jul 22, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

    DHS Sends Over 100,000 Immigrants Bills of $998 a Day to Pressure Self-Deportation
20. Jul 22, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Confirmed

    Mexico Files 20 Criminal Complaints in U.S. Courts Over 17 Citizens Killed in ICE Operations
21. Jul 24, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

    Lawmakers Say DHS Is Stonewalling Them Over the ICE Shooting of Lorenzo Salgado in Houston
22. Jul 24, 2026 · Immigration, Detention & Civil Rights · Well supported

    ICE Plans a 1,400-Bed Detention Center at a Shuttered North Carolina Prison Over the Governor's Objection